Glove-package holder



(No Model.)

B. H. MOORE:

GLOVE PACKAGE HOLDER.

No. 487,127. v Patented Nov. 29, 1892.

WITNESSES. INVENTOH BY I A TTOHNEYS.

UNlTED STATES PATIENT OFFICE.

RICHARD H. MOORE, OF GREAT HARRINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

GLOVE-PACKAGE HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 487,127, dated November 29, 1892..

7 Application filed September 28, 1892. Serial No. 447,170. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, RICHARD H. MOORE, of Great Barrington, in the county of Berkshire and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Glove-Pack age Holders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention is designed to do away with the clumsy and inconvenient expedients for binding a package of gloves together by wrapping around them a band of paper and pinning the same, or by the use of elastic bands, or by tying them with cord to keep the wrappers and contents in proper order. Special glove-holders of a different character have been used by merchants and glove-dealers as improvements upon these primitive means for holding packages of gloves together, the same being more or less in the form of open spring binders or cases for holding the gloves in between them and for retaining the same in good condition, with protection, in some instances, of the gloves from shop-wear while the package is being handled in selling gloves from it.

My invention consists in a holder of novel construction of this latter description for packages of gloves, substantially as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims, whereby great simplicity is obtained, together with adequate protection for the gloves and with every facility for their display or examination from either end and for removing one or more pairs of them when required.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 represents a view in perspective of a holder for gloves in package form embodying my invention and as containing a package of gloves consisting of any number of pairs within it, and Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same.

Said glove-holder consists of two independent disconnected binding-strips AA, of sufficient length and width to take in the gloves between them, and of an independent opening and self-closing spring clamp or clip B, capable of being sprung transversely on and over the binding-strips, which it serves to press toward each other and to give a springpressure or hold on the gloves 0 between the binding-strips.

The binding-strips (or splints, as they may be termed) A A may be made of sheet metal or any other suitable material and are of arched or curved form in transverse section,

so as to present smooth transversely-concave interior surfaces, which give a better hold on the gloves without creasing or injuring them, and by making their exterior surface of c0rresponding convex form the glove-holder is more readily handled without injury or inconvenience to the fingers. The independent clamp or clip B is made of spring sheet metal closed at its one end I) to form a spring-hinge integral with it, but open at its opposite end and terminating in outer turned lips c c to prevent injury to the exposed edges of the gloves and to form handles for manipulating the jaw-shaped clamp or clip, which by its spring-action is self-closing on and across the splints A A, and which, being independent, admits of either binding strip or splint A being moved independently beneath or over the inside of the clip, so as to expose either end of the package of gloves, which is very desirable. Said independent binding-strips and spring-jaw clip also serve to keep the gloves in good condition and admit of the glove holder readily being opened for insertion or removal of the gloves, either in single pairs or package form.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A holder for gloves in package form, consisting of two independent or detached strips or splints adapted to receive and hold apackage of gloves in between them and of an independent spring-jawlike clamp or clip constructed to receive said splints within or through it and to act with a spring-pressure on the splints with their contained package of gloves and to admit of either splint being moved independently through the clip to exlike clamp or clip B for operation together pose either end of the package of gloves, suband in relation with the package of gloves in IO stantially as specified. between the splints, as set forth. 2. In a love-packa 'e holder, substantially X 5 as describ ed, the longitudinal detached strips RHHARD MOORE or splints A A, of curved construction, translVitnesses: versely presenting concave interiors, in com- F. N. DELAND,

bination with the independent spring-jaw- O. H. BOOTH. 

